70 
revolute margins; bracts shorter than the culms, bristle-like. Male 
spikelets 1—8, female spikelets 2 

3, long-cylindrical, often with 
male flowers at the summit; scales obtuse, blackish, shorter than 
the nerved utricles; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Kotzebue Sound. Eur.: Kolguey. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, British Isles, Central and 
Southern Scandinavia, Denmark, Central Europe. 
Obs. It is doubtfull whether this species is found in the Arctic regions; we 
have not seen specimens therefrom and suppose that the quoted statements are 
due to mistakes. 
Subsect. 2. Aquatiles Fries, 1. c. p. 229. Rhizome creeping, culms 
without leaf-less sheaths above the leaves from the foregoing year; leaves 
narrow with involute margins; sheaths without fibrillose margins; scales 
of the female spikelets not elongated; marshes. 
126. C. aquatilis We. 
Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV p. 312; Feilden, Fl. of Kolguey p. 184; Kjellm., 
Sib. Nordk. Fanerogamfl. p. 276; Schmidt, Fl. Jeniss. arct. p. 125; FL D. 
Suppl. tab. 33; f. typica Kjellm. & Lundstr., Nov. Seml. p. 316. 
Culms stout and tall, trigonous with smooth, blunt edges; leaves 
very long, green, with involute margins, longer than the culms; 
lower bracts broad and long, leafy, longer than the culms, partly 
enclosing the spikelets; male spikelets 1—4, female spikelets 2—6, 
sessile or short-stalked, erect, dense-flowered, long-cylindrical; scales 
light- or darker-brown with pale midyein, obtuse, shorter than the 
nerye-less utricles; stigmas 2. 
Am.: Port Clarence (!). Eur.: Kolguev (!), Waigats (!), Habarowa, 
Samoyede Land. As.: Mouth of the Yenissei (!), Dickson Harbour, Actinia 
Bay, Preobrascheni Bay. 
Geogr. area: Northern North America, Great Britain, Ireland, 
Scandinavia, Northern Russia (and Siberia’). 
var. stans (Drej.). 
C. stans Drej. Revis. crit. Car. bor. 1841, p. 458; Lge. Consp. FI. 
Groenl. p. 147; Roseny., Till. p. 723; Taylor, Pl. coll. at Davis Str. and 
Baff. Bay p. 85; Cornell Party, Peary Voy: 1896, p. 422; Hart, Brit. Pol. 
Exped. p. 241; Fl. D. tab. 2477; C. aquatilis Berlin, Karly. f. Gronl. p. 71; 
Taylor, l.c. p. 85; C. aquatilis, var. epigejos, Lge. 1. c. p. 292; Kjellm., Sib. 
Nordk. Fanerogamfl. p. 276, As. Beringss. p. 563, Vest-Eskim. Land p. 57; 
Kjellm. & Lundstr., Nov. Seml. p.316; Holm, Nov. Seml. Veget. p. 17; 
C. salina Holm, l.c. p.17, non Wg.; C. hyperborea Holm, l.c. p. 17, non 
Drejer; C. elytroides Lge. l.c., non Fries. 
In the Arctic regions C. aquatilis is commonly replaced by the 
var. stans which differs from the type as follow: culms lower 
